The recommendation for the payed "Expert" "Employee TurboTax Specialist," @Anonymous is VERY BAD. If you change the field from $300 to $0, you LOSE your tax deduction, which can be close to $100. There is a terrible glitch in the TurboTax application. It appears to have been like this for weeks, with multiple questions like this, and no fix to it. It asks you how much you gave in charitable contributions, up to $300, but never to enter the details. But zeroing out the field is the WORST answer.
But @Mike9241 in a different string had the answer. Basically, you have to go in and add all the individual contributions in detail, even though TurboTax never PROMPTS you to do this on its own. Here is the full detail he provides:
TT says for the online version you have to enter the cash/money contribution through the contribution worksheet for schedule a. You can not do it through the 1040 worksheet.
do a Search for charitable contributions and click on the jump-to result. Be sure to indicate that the contribution was “Money” or else TurboTax will not ask about it later.
Then, in the Federal Review at the end of your data entry, TurboTax will realize that you are taking the Standard Deduction and ask you to enter the amount of the charitable contribution that was in cash.
